People who don’t aspire to one day upload their consciousness to a machine brain confuse me.
We are peculiar people,
We will shed our human skin
And learn to fly.
You and I, we were born to fly.
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| — | Peculiar People, Mute Math (via quandric) |
“From now on, your name is Kara.”
“…My name is Kara.”I can’t stop thinking about this video.
Synthetic beings achieving sentience is a trope that has always spoken to me. For me, robots tend to be about female rebellion (thanks Haraway!). For other people they’re about…
DIY Transhumanism - We’ve all read the stories of people being augmented in the near future, better brains, stronger limbs, artificial senses, and longer lives via organ replacements. A few brave individuals however, are not content to wait for technology to come to them. Instead, they experiment on their own bodies to create the transhumanist vision of the future for themselves. The saying “history is not a spectator sport” has never rung so true!
Meet British Do-It-Yourself biohacker Lepht Anonym. Her website Patterns in the Void describes an array of self-experiments, ranging from additional senses via implanted magnetic sensors and a linked GPS smartphone to electromagnetically sensitive fingertips. When asked about mainstream transhumanist pundits and their attitudes of waiting for technology to be brought to them rather than cooking up bio-proofed implantable enhancements of their own, Lepht replies:
“The existing transhumanist movement is lame. It’s nano everything. It’s just ideas,” she says. “Anyone can do this. This is kitchen stuff.”
You can’t help but be impressed by that kind of conviction and willingness to put yourself on the line - go Lepht!
jinq:
Perhaps my favorite of the parallel works, since it’s the most canon of them all. And I enjoy the history of things like this.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepic
